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Stem Cells From Cloning Too Defective for Treating Disease
Reporting 5/27/02 on a study appearing in the journal Nature
Genetics, the Independent of London writes:
"Plans to clone human embryos to generate vital stem cells for transplant
operations are likely to fail using the techniques currently available, a
study has found.
"Scientists at the University of Connecticut have discovered that cloning
produces genetic imbalances, which could explain why so many cloned animals
are stillborn or suffer from medical problems after birth and die prematurely.
The same flaws could also jeopardize the use of stem cells derived from
cloned human embryos produced for ‘therapeutic’ purposes. The resulting
tissues would be too defective to repair damaged organs, the scientists said."
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